Wow, I didn't realize one could disable the blasted touchpad. I think
my hubby doesn't like it either, so I don't think he'd object, if we
can figure out how to do it.
Jan
On 9/14/15, David Goldfield <david.goldfield@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ah, I see. In my last job I used a Hitachi laptop and I'd always brushYou are invited to visit the moderator's Web site at WWW.DavidGoldfield.Info
up against the blasted touchpad and my cursor would just go off to what
seemed like a random point in the document. I guess I could have figured
out how to disable the touchpad but instead I just bought an external
keyboard and my cursor never jumped around after that.
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On 9/14/2015 4:47 PM, Jan Lattuca wrote:
David, as you can see, I've fallen behind on my e-mails, so am just
seeing this one. Yes, I do use my laptop for all my e-mailing. I'm
sure that I sometimes get too near the touch screen, and maybe that
sets off this annoying turnabout. In any case, I will try to remember
from now on to always hit Control Home before beginning to type.
Jan
On 9/9/15, David Goldfield <david.goldfield@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jan,You are invited to visit the moderator's Web site at
I'm curious as to whether you're using a laptop when replying to email.
I ask because I'm wondering if the issue might be bumping the trackpad
by accident when opening an email message?
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On 9/9/2015 3:34 PM, Jan Lattuca wrote:
Well, this is rather maddening. Cry!You are invited to visit the moderator's Web site at
Jan
On 9/9/15, Robin Frost <robini71@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,You are invited to visit the moderator's Web site at
This time out you're at the top of the heap as it were (laughs).
Robin
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Lattuca
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 2:33 PM
To: blind-philly-comp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-philly-comp] Re: an interesting article from the
Washington
post
Robin, thanks for the heads-up again. Actually, I talked with family
members about the problem this past weekend and my hubby has an idea.
We haven't yet had to chance to try it out. I'm so sorry this keeps
happening. Hopefully, it'll be fixed. Please continue to keep me
posted.
Jan
On 9/5/15, Robin Frost <robini71@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hmm Jan you're back at the bottom of the email reply mountain again.You are invited to visit the moderator's Web site at
I'd
sure love to know what determines that.
Robin
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Lattuca
Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2015 7:14 PM
To: blind-philly-comp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-philly-comp] Re: an interesting article from the
Washington
post
On 9/5/15, David Goldfield <david.goldfield@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I admit I've joked about this but I do acknowledge that this is aIronically, I just placed an order for some cassette books last week
major
inconvenience for a lot of people, especially for consumers who
can't
easily get to their local NLS branch. I usually have a few books on
standby but the fact is that if Bookshare experienced a similar
outage
I'd be a bit cranky. It goes to show how dependent we've become on
cloud-based services. Years ago, you called your library when you
were
close to the end of a book you were reading and you'd hoped that the
new
one would arrive in the mail before you were ready to send back the
one
you just finished. For many of us, we don't even think that way
anymore
because we assume that we'll always have access to hundreds of
thousands
of titles in the cloud whenever we press a key or tap an icon. This
isn't a criticism. Hey, I can't remember the last time I actually
called
in for a book but I know it was years ago. Actually, it was fairly
recent as it was a book which hadn't yet been digitized on BARD and,
at
the time, I was not a Bookshare member.
David Goldfield,
Assistive Technology Specialist
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On 9/5/2015 10:15 AM, martin nelson wrote:
The Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress. (Michael
Dersin/Library of Congress)
/This post has been updated./
The computer failures at the Library of Congress that have crippled
the U.S. Copyright Office since last week also have shut down the
electronic services of the National Library for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped.
That office’s Braille and Recorded Books, or BARD service, has not
worked since Tuesday, preventing thousands of visually impaired
readers across the country from accessing materials.
The National Library for the Blind provided about 25 million copies
of
books and magazines to more than 800,000 reader accounts in 2013,
according to the Library of Congress’s annual report from that
year,
the most recent available.
“We’re not really sure what happened,” said JD Hall, manager of the
Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in Little
Rock, Ark., one of the library’s state partners. “We have backup
for
all the state library materials, so we can switch over to that.”
Managers of the regional and state offices say customers are
calling
for help because they are unable to download audio and braille
files.
“I haven’t received a full explanation,” said James Woolyhand of
the
Florida Bureau of Braille and Talking Book Services. “This took
everyone by surprise. It’s not a common thing.”
The Library of Congress scheduled system outages last weekend for
routine maintenance, officials said. But when that work was
complete,
officials were unable to bring back several critical systems at the
library, the federal agency that houses several offices, including
the
Copyright Office, the Congressional research and law libraries, and
the national service for the blind and disabled.
After the weekend disruption, BARD was working Monday, but went
down
Tuesday and hasn’t worked since, Hall said.
The library didn’t include the BARD service in its initial report
on
which systems were shut down. On the BARD Web site, a message
reads,
“We regret that BARD is currently experiencing difficulties. At the
present time we have disabled BARD until we can resolve the
technical
problem.” It says the service “will most likely be down” until late
Sept. 8.
“We regret the inconvenience to our many and varied users. Efforts
continue around the clock to return the affected sites to service,”
Library of Congress spokeswoman Gayle Osterberg said in an e-mail.
The widespread computer failure comes five months aftera scathing
Congressional repor
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/americas-national-library-is-behind-the-digital-curve-a-new-report-finds/2015/03/31/fad54c3a-d3fd-11e4-a62f-ee745911a4ff_story.html>t
found major problems with the library’s information technology
systems. The report blamed Librarian James H. Billington and his
executive team for mismanagement and failing to hiring a chief
information officer. Weeks later, Billington announced that he
would
retire
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style-blog/wp/2015/06/10/librarian-of-congress-to-resign-in-january/>
at the end of the year after 28 years in office.
Susan Chinault, manager of the Braille and Talking Books Library at
the Michigan Bureau of Services for Blind Persons, said about 3,000
state residents have BARD accounts, about one-quarter of the state
system’s patrons. She said that those who can’t get materials can
have
them mailed from her library.
“This is a critical failure,” she said. “For those who get
magazines
and for those who download directly from BARD, it’s a big
inconvenience. They are very dependent on it.”
But Chinault said the state partners are aware of the technological
challenges of the federal government. “We’ve always known that it
takes a lot longer for the federal government to catch up,” she
said.
“I can have patience with them, and our patrons are not pleased
about
it, but it’s not a life-or-death situation.
that still hadn't been digitized and have been on my to-read list for
years. Also, I, too, tend to download many more books than I'll need
right away; so I'm okay; but, if BARD had been up and running this
week, I'd have downloaded more anyway.
We'll be out of town for three weeks in October; and, since i don't
have an iPhone, I really should try to download a bunch before we
leave Hatboro. Wonder if BARD will be up and running by then. HMMM
.....
Hope you all have plenty to read in the meantime.
Jan
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